Word: recording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years later, Fabian is leaving them for dead at the jukeboxes. His voice, when it can be heard at all over the artful work of his accompanying musicians and the studio sound engineers, suggests mournfully that he is trying to imitate every rock-'n'-roller on record. Yet the noise sells. His rendition of Turn Me Loose was high on the charts for weeks, sold more than three-quarters of a million copies. Tiger, his latest, a song that Columnist John Crosby observes is "enormously improved by total unintelligibility," is climbing fast. Its popularity helps 16-year...
...condition: "I'll have to do it on the first jump." That he did. Hitting the mark at a sprinter's clip. Bell jackknifed forward and landed at 26 ft. 7 in., equaling his best distance-a jump that stands second only to Jesse Owens' 1935 record of 26 ft. 8¼ in. The pressure on Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan was so intense that he fouled repeatedly, had to settle for 25 ft. 9¼ in. and second place...
...shotput. brawny (6 ft. 3 in., 240 Ibs.) World Champion Parry O'Brien was trailing Teammate Dave Davis when he flashed across the ring on his fifth try, heaved the 16-lb. sphere 63 ft. 2½ in. to break his own record...
...pole vault, Tarzan-armed Don Bragg, holder of the world indoor record (15 ft. 9½ in.), redeemed his loss...
...seven of ten first places, including one-two sweeps in the loo-meters, the no-meter high hurdles, the 400-meter dash, and the shotput. The only real upset in the weights was when Hammer Thrower Vasily Rudenkov got off a toss of 219 ft. to upset World Record Holder Hal Connolly...